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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Volume 98, Issue 14, Pages 7958-7963Publisher
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.131207398
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- NHLBI NIH HHS [R01 HL052773, HL51992, HL52773] Funding Source: Medline
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Although the protective cellular immune response to Mycobacterium tuberculosis requires recruitment of macrophages and T lymphocytes to the site of infection, the signals that regulate this trafficking have not been defined. We investigated the role of C-C chemokine receptor 2 (CCR2)-dependent cell recruitment in the protective response to M, tuberculosis. CCR2(-/-) mice died early after infection and had 100-fold more bacteria in their lungs than did CCR2(+/+) mice. CCR2(-/-) mice exhibited an early defect in macrophage recruitment to the lung and a later defect in recruitment of dendritic cells and T cells to the lung. CCR2(-/-) mice also had fewer macrophages and dendritic cells recruited to the mediastinal lymph node (MLN) after infection. T cell migration through the MLN was similar in CCR2(-/-) and CCR2(+/+) mice. However, T cell priming was delayed in the MLNs of the CCR2(-/-) mice, and fewer CD4(+) and CD8(+) T cells primed to produce IFN-gamma accumulated in the lungs of the CCR2(-/-) mice. These data demonstrate that cellular responses mediated by activation of CCR2 are essential in the initial immune response and control of infection with M. tuberculosis.
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